ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,032, issued on Aug. 12.
"Two-part earring with optimized means for guiding one part into the other" was invented by Florent Podda (Cannes, France) and Sebastien Podda (Cannes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An earring includes a pointed pin adapted to be reversibly inserted into a receiving housing provided with a means for guiding the pin, the receiving housing also including at least one seal. The guide means is formed by a concavity whose bottom is open, a diameter of the open base of the concavity being at least 30% greater than an outer diameter of the receiving housing, a depth of the concavity being equal to half a leng...